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Rh Mankind was hers: All at her Feet
 * Lay prostrate and adoring,

The Witty, Handsome, Rich, and Great,
 * In vain alike imploring.

But now grown old; she wou'd repair
 * Her Loss of Time and Pleasure,

With willing Eyes, and wanton Air,
 * Inviting every Gazer.

But Love's a Summer Flow'r, that dies
 * With the first Weather's changing;

The Lover, like the Swallow, flies
 * From Sun to Sun, still ranging.

Myra, let this Example move
 * Your foolish Heart to Reason:

Youth is the proper time for Love,
 * And Age is Virtue's Season.

O well Corinna likes the Joy, She vows she'll never more be coy, She drinks eternal Draughts of Pleasure: Eternal